# teste
## English
### Etymology

So called from Latin teste, ablative of testis (“a witness”), because this was formerly the initial word in the clause.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɛsti/, /ˈtɛsteɪ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Homophone: testy

### Noun

teste (plural testes)
* (law) A witness.
* The witnessing or concluding clause, duty attached; said of a writ, deed, etc.

### See also

* testes

### References

* ↑ Alexander M[ansfield] Burrill (1850–1851) “TESTE”, in A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: […], volume (please specify |part= or |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: John S. Voorhies, […], →OCLC.
* “teste”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Sette, teest, teets

## Corsican
### Etymology

From English teste, perhaps via or else akin to Italian teste.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɛste/
* Hyphenation: tes‧te

### Noun

teste m (plural testi)
* test, testing
** 2019, Zosimov Premudroslovsky StaVl, Mutanti Sovetti: Fantasia divertente, →ISBN:Luntanu, luntanu à a fruntiera di l'antica URSS (avà Kazakistan) è a Cina, in u sudeste di a regione Semipalatinsk, vicinu à a cità de Ayaguz, traduttu cum'è "Oh toro", ci era un terrenu di teste nucleare cù una atmosfera radioattiva infettata ottenuta da a negligenza di i schientifichi in opera.Far, far away on the border of the former USSR (now Kazakhstan) and China, in the southeast of the region Semipalatinsk, next to the city of Ayaguz, translated as "Oh toro", there was a terrain of nuclear testing with an infected radioactive atmosphere obtained due to the negligence of the scientists in operation.

## Danish
### Etymology

From English test, see there for further. Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål teste, Norwegian Nynorsk testa, Swedish testa (“'try, attempt'”), German testen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɛsdə/

### Verb

teste (past tense testede, past participle testet)
* (transitive) to test, examine
    Synonym: afprøve
* (intransitive) (mostly medical) to test, undergo testing, receive test results
    atleten testede positiv og blev diskvalificeret for dopingthe athlete tested positive and was disqualified for doping

#### Derived terms

* aids-teste
* allergitestet
* gennemteste
* hiv-teste
* tester
* testning

#### Related terms

* aids-test
* graviditetstest
* hiv-test
* testcenter
* testresultat

### References

* “teste” in Den Danske Ordbog

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

teste f (plural testes)
* Obsolete spelling of tête.

### Further reading

* “teste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* tètes, tétés, têtes

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin testa.

### Noun

teste f (plural testis)
* (rare) head

#### Synonyms

* cjâf
* (informal, colloquial, or humorous) burele, capadocie, cassele, coce, çucje, çurie, maçocje, melonarie

## Galician
### Verb

teste
* inflection of testar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɛstə]
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

teste
* inflection of testen:
** first-person singular present
** singular imperative
** first/third-person singular subjunctive I

## Hungarian
### Etymology

test (“body”) +‎ -e (possessive suffix)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɛʃtɛ]
* Hyphenation: tes‧te

### Noun

teste
* third-person singular single-possession possessive of test

#### Declension
## Interlingua
### Noun

teste (plural testes)
* witness

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɛ.ste/
* Rhymes: -ɛste
* Hyphenation: tè‧ste

### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin testis, from earlier *terstis ← *tristis, from Proto-Indo-European *tristh₂s (“a third party standing, after the two parties to a contract or dispute”), from *tréyes (“three”) and *steh₂- (“to stand”).

#### Noun

teste m or f by sense (plural testi)
* (law) witness
    Synonym: testimone

##### Related terms

* testimone
* testimonianza
* testimoniare
* testimonio

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English test.

#### Noun

teste m (plural testi)
* (rare) test
    Synonym: test

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

teste f pl
* plural of testa

### Further reading

* teste$^1$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
* teste$^2$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* Sette, sette

## Latin
### Noun

teste
* ablative singular of testis

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French teste.

### Noun

teste f (plural testes)
* head
** 1532, François Rabelais, Pantagruel:Comment Epistemon qui avoit la teste tranchée, fut guery habillement par Panurge.How Epistemon who had his head cut off was adroitly cured by Panurge

#### Descendants

* French: tête

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From English test.

### Verb

teste (imperative test, present tense tester, passive testes, simple past and past participle testa or testet, present participle testende)
* to test (something)

#### Derived terms

* utestet

#### Related terms

* test (noun)

### References

* “teste” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin testa.

### Noun

teste oblique singular, f (oblique plural testes, nominative singular teste, nominative plural testes)
* head
** c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:La teste li eüst copeeHe cut off his head

#### Descendants

* Champenois: téte
* Middle French: teste
** French: tête
* Norman: tête, teet (Sark)
* Walloon: tiesse

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtɛs.t͡ʃi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtɛs.t͡ʃi/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈtɛʃ.t͡ʃi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈtɛs.te/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈtɛʃ.tɨ/
* Hyphenation: tes‧te

### Etymology 1

From Latin testis (“witness”).

#### Noun

teste m (plural testes)
* (obsolete) witness

##### Related terms

* testar
* testemunho
* testificar

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English test.

#### Noun

teste m (plural testes)
* (education) test (academic examination)
    Synonyms: avaliação, ensaio, exame, prova
* test (session in which something or someone is examined under various conditions)
    Synonym: avaliação
** 2007, Othon Cabo Winter, Antonio Fernando Bertachini de Almeida Prado, A Conquista do Espaço do Sputnik a Missão Centenário, Editora Livraria da Física, →ISBN, page 109:Em 22 de janeiro de 1968, ocorreu o vôo da Apollo 5. O objetivo da missão era realizar o teste do Módulo Lunar no espaço, em especial verificar o funcionamento de seus motores de alunissagem e ascensão, assim como avaliar o desempenho funcional da separação entre os módulos de alunissagem e ascensão e da estratégia de se abortar a alunissagem, situação onde o foguete de ascensão era acionado e a separação entre os módulos ocorreria, enquanto o módulo se encontrava em processo de descida.On January 22, 1968, Apollo 5 flew. The aim of the mission was to test the Lunar Module in space, in particular to check the operation of its landing and ascent engines, as well as to evaluate the functional performance of the separation between the landing and ascent modules and the strategy of aborting the landing, a situation in which the ascent rocket was activated and the separation between the modules took place while the module was in the process of descending.

##### Derived terms

* testar
* teste de Cooper
* teste de gravidez
* teste de Rorschach
* teste do alce
* teste do pezinho
* teste do sofá
* teste psicotécnico

##### Related terms

* testado
* testador
* testante
* testável

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

teste
* inflection of testar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### References

* “teste”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “teste”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دسته (deste, teste), from Persian دسته (dasta).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /těste/

### Noun

tèste n (Cyrillic spelling тѐсте) (archaic)
* dozen, a bundle of twelve

#### Declension
### References

* Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 614

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈteste/ [ˈt̪es.t̪e]
* Rhymes: -este
* Syllabification: tes‧te

### Etymology 1

From Latin testis.

#### Noun

teste m (plural testes)
* (anatomy) testicle
    Synonym: testículo

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

teste
* inflection of testar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “teste”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Tarantino
### Noun

teste
* text

## Turkish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tesˈte/
* Hyphenation: tes‧te

### Noun

teste
* dative singular of test